Posts Tagged ‘freedom of speech’
Free Speech
Free Speech Not In Public ‘We are committed, of course, to freedom of speech, But not if you’re speaking in public.’ 2024 Slipware Plate, 26cm diam Private Collection photo: @sylvaindeleuphotographer Now we know how dangerous it can be to speak your mind in public. Potentially lethal. Murder on Campus Even calling the murder, 10 days…
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Vanity of the Bonfires Romola George Eliot’s ‘Romola,’ set in Florence in the 1490s, but written in England in 1862, presents a society where public discourse, people’s everyday lives – their social lives in particular – and street politics were strikingly similar to our own. The public mood was volatile. The Medicis had been expelled…
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